Only Self Pings

Pingbacks are automatic notifications added (as a kind of comment) to posts you link to in your articles. Whether a visitor is reading something way back in your archives or your most recent post, the pingbacks makes sure she can easily find any follow ups.

This is great for keeping related articles together, but private blogs are forced to disable Pingbacks to avoid notifying other sites when linking to them!

“Only Self Pings” solves this by only allowing pings to your own site (and whatever URLs you add to the whitelist).

//Ulf Benjaminsson

Additional Notes

Copyright (C) 2012 Ulf Benjaminsson (hello at my full name dot com).

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

1. Extract the only-self-pings-folder and transfer it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Go to Settings->Only Self Pings to adjust settings.

What’s the White List for?

Any URLs added here will be notified when you link to them. Usually this is just your own blog.

1. 

   The settings panel

1.0

Public release.